88
12 Apr 2014

Tuple for Your Thoughts?

play (47 minutes 23 MB)

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the simplest of things, the tuple: what it is, how it is used in other languages (specifically Python), and how, in an alternate universe, it could bring some sanity to Cocoa error handling.

Links:

Rejected Episode Titles:

  • Oh, That’s Horrible
  • Our Day-ta/Dahh-ta Argument
  • His Love Is Unconditional
  • You Lose Some Cred Points Right There
  • The Absolute Wrong Way to Do It
  • A Bunch of Bother
  • I Forgot the ‘F’
  • Wanna Grab Some Lunch?
  • A Series of Fixed Objects
  • Wolf, You Love It When I Read Code
  • A Lot of Stuff to Unpack
  • The Idiocy of Using URLs as File References
  • “This Method Is Spelled Correctly”
  • Who Reads Documentation?
  • Singles, Doubles, Triples
  • Incredibly Verbose
  • Better Living with Tuples
  • A Textbook Case of Not Using Tuples
  • They Don’t Really Work Together Very Well
  • There’s an Error, but I Don’t Care
  • Remember When We Used to Pass Structs Around?
  • C++ Is the Kitchen Sink of Languages
  • Maybe I Was Young and Naive
  • I’m Sure Somebody’s Done That
  • Kind of a Tourist Trip
  • You Should Feel in Good Company
  • Not Like an Animal
87
04 Apr 2014

JavaScript Plus Square Brackets

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Wolf Rentzsch talks to guest cohost Gus Mueller about Cocoa Script. An evolution of his earlier effort, JSTalk, Cocoa Script is Gus’s sane Mac app scripting alternative to AppleScript, based on JavaScript with Objective-C-style extensions.

Links:

Rejected Episode Titles:

  • This Famous List of Topics
  • The End of the Series, the End of the World
  • A Meaningless Three-Digit Number
  • Felt the Pain of AppleScript
  • Steal from Me!
  • You Can See My Trials
  • Not Very Good at Branches
  • Really Strong Embeddable Story
  • Love Note to Objective-C
  • A Little Bit of Syntax Highlighting
  • Stand on the Shoulders of Giants
  • Mocha Is a Bridge
  • CocoaScript Would Be a Better Name
  • You Can’t Be Blamed
  • Very Excited When That First Came Out
  • And Then Disappointed
  • As I Was Walking the Codebase
  • Because of the C Influence
  • A Developer Scripting Language
  • Not Long for This World
  • All the Way to the NeXT Years
  • It Was Pretty Raw
  • Everyone Sending Messages to Each Other
  • Exactly the Sort of Thing That Apple Doesn’t Want to Happen
  • I Generally Hate People
  • That’s Why We Program
86
29 Mar 2014

Andrew’s Blogroll in the Post-Blog Era

play (55 minutes 26 MB)

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the developer blogs he follows via RSS: the ones that have died/gone fallow/transformed, the ones he’s added recently, and the ones that seem to be trying to replicate Apple’s tutorials and documentation.

Links:

Rejected Episode Titles:

  • I Do Follow Your Blog!
  • The Prolific Brent Simmons
  • I Think So, but I’m Probably Wrong
  • I Want to Subscribe to a Person
  • A Fan of Compartmentalization
  • What the Heck, It’s What I Do
  • I’m Not Going to Spell “Tumblr”
  • Quote-Unquote “Tired”
  • There’s Reader and Then There’s Reeder
  • The Brain Cells That They’re Due
  • Read-It-Never
  • As You Might Imagine, He Gets Frustrated
  • He’s Pretty Mental!
  • Frenemy of the Show
  • Way to Prepare for the Episode, Man!
  • Not Holy, Not Roman, Not an Empire
  • A Bit of an Odd Duck
  • I Thought I Was the Guy Who Knew Everything
  • There’s a Hole to Be Filled
  • Fifteen Ways to Blah-Blah-Blah
  • Piled up a Few Dinosaurs
  • You’d Make a Good King
  • The Last Rat off a Sinking Ship
85
23 Mar 2014

A Fan of Ravioli Code

play (47 minutes 22 MB)

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about programming pasta: disorganized “spaghetti” code, multi-layered “lasagna” code, and conceptually-separated “ravioli” code (his favorite). Bonus: new GitHub project!

Links:

Rejected Episode Titles:

  • Pasta Programming
  • A Bevy of Related Pastas
  • Lasagna Code
  • Shell Pasta Code
  • Often Known as Onion Code
  • Kind of Like a Jenga Stack
  • Let’s See How Many Metaphors We Can Throw In
  • Spaghetti with Meatballs
  • So Maybe Like Swedish Meatballs?
  • If Anybody’s Still Listening
  • Macaroni Code
  • Ravioli Code
  • Do Their Ravioli Thing
  • It’s Meatballs Through and Through
  • Kitchen Countertop Programming
  • The Double-Curly Technique
  • Bulkheads in the Titanic
  • The Rachel Ray Episode
  • Changes Rippled Through Just Like a Dream
  • Lost in a Sea of Ravioli
  • I Had Fundamental Misunderstandings
  • A Terrible, Terrible, Terrible Name
  • Dependency Injection…Duh Duh Duh!
  • A Twenty-Five Dollar Term for a Five-Cent Concept
  • Ball of Mud View Controller
  • We All Know About Asparagus
84
15 Mar 2014

A Couple of Maxims, a Couple of Aphorisms

play (51 minutes 24 MB)

Andrew Pontious talks to Wolf Rentzsch about the three maxims he gleaned from Evan Doll’s interview on the Debug podcast: code is a liability, ship the right bugs, and (paraphrased) don’t impose unneeded project methodologies.

Links:

Rejected Episode Titles:

  • The Collected Wisdom of Evan Doll
  • I’m Sure You Have Questions
  • Division Used to Be Really Expensive
  • God, Why Would I Do That?
  • Code Is a Liability
  • Ship the Right Bugs
  • The Pinnacle of Cutting Edge Thinking
  • I’m Hanging Up Right Now
  • Code Leads to Bugs, Bugs Lead to Suffering
  • Person or Robot or Whatever
  • How Do You Freeze-Dry an Object?
  • And of Course, as a Graybeard Myself…
  • Up to and Including the Event Loop
  • Not in Anger, No
  • Single-Handedly Trying to Bring Blogs Back
  • No, I’m Kidding, Don’t Do That at Home
  • Not All the Sample Code Is Written by Interns
  • Really Hard-Asses About Punting Bugs
  • I May Be Butchering This
  • Kill Your Darlings
  • A Very Kind of Adult Thing
  • It’s Hard to Do, but It’s a Good Idea
  • I’m Successful, so Here’s What I Had for Breakfast, and You Should Have That for Breakfast
  • We Have These Binary Bits
  • Hence the Name of This Bloody Podcast
  • What Are You Doing to Your Entities!
83
08 Mar 2014

Floating Point Numbers Are a Leaky Abstraction

play (48 minutes 23 MB)

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about floating point numbers: how they work, why they’re weird, and when you definitely shouldn’t use them (hint: mo money mo problems).

Links:

Rejected Episode Titles:

  • You Bet Your Asset Catalog!
  • All Models Are Wrong, Some Models Are Useful
  • Imagine You’re on the Beach at a Resort
  • Now, Imagine That You Go All Godzilla
  • (Not the Spreadsheet)
  • It’s Not a Trick Question, Although Maybe It Is
  • This Was Science and This Was Truth
  • Numbers! I Know This!
  • Not Your First Floating Point Rodeo
  • If We Went to School, We Probably Would Know That
  • You’re in This Different World
  • Because You’re a Graybeard
  • You’ve Exhausted It
  • There Are No Solutions, There Are Only Tradeoffs
  • That’s a Lot of Zeroes to Say
  • “Aren’t You a Compression Buff?” “It’s More of a Hobby”
  • This Could Be a Very Long Episode
  • Gradual Underflow
  • You’ve Suffered Accuracy Loss
  • Numerically Unsophisticated Programmers
  • This False Sense of Security
  • Then the Wave Comes in and Sweeps You in the Ocean
  • “No One Really Cares About This Stuff” “Except You” “Even I…My Eyes Glaze Over”
  • A Bunch of Decisions That Humans Had to Make
  • Genetically Diverse
  • We Can Pretty Much Thank Intel for It
  • We’re Mentioning DEC Again
  • The First Thing Some Joker Would Do
  • Don’t Use Floating Point Numbers for Money
  • Avoid Floating Point If You Can
82
01 Mar 2014

Asset Catalogs

play (44 minutes 21 MB)

Andrew Pontious stumps Wolf Rentzsch not once, but repeatedly, by talking about asset catalogs, new in Xcode 5. But in turn he is stumped attempting to backport them to earlier OSes.

Links:

Rejected Episode Titles:

  • “Is That the Xcode Thing?” “Yeah”
  • A Tale of Woe
  • Competing with Yourself
  • We’re Both Joneses in This Analogy
  • A Developer Tool Component and a Runtime Component
  • They Didn’t Like Different Things
  • IOS Kind of Screwed with That
  • We Don’t Have a Mike Ash Post About It Yet
  • Never Been Really Stellar at Launch Times
  • You Have to Do It in Code
  • I Remember It like It Was Yesterday
  • Designed by Someone Who Hates Xcode
  • People Bugging Apple for Some Time
  • Why Do We Have Groups and Files That Are Different in the Project Than They Are on Disk?
  • Entropy Creeps In
  • Chip in the Armor? Chink in the Armor?
  • And the Answer’s No, but OK, We’re Going to Talk About It Anyway
  • It’s All in the File System
  • Script Build Phrase
  • Might as Well Bash Your Head In
  • I Feel Like I’m Not Living Up to My Rep
  • They’re Just Incomprehensible Text Files
  • A Pretty Big Stickler for Build Warnings
  • What’s Not to Like?
  • Bad Hash Collision in My Brain
  • This Perfectly Good Plist Format
  • The User Interface Actually Kind of Baffles Me
  • This Is Something That Was Solved
  • I’m All for JSON
  • Not Even Webby
  • Good Job Stumping Me
81
23 Feb 2014

The Only Cool Thing About PDF

play (36 minutes 17 MB)

Wolf Rentzsch tries to keep up with Andrew “The Joneses” Pontious and introduces JRPDFLabel, his new…innovative project that allow you to use custom fonts in Interface Builder without having to bundle the entire font with your Mac app.

Links:

Rejected Episode Titles:

  • A Lot of Extra Work for Something Not Very Interesting
  • Turtles All the Way Down
  • You Still Have Plenty of Surprises Left for Me, Wolf
  • Not as Cool as Dragging Entities into a Window
  • Really? The Kids Are Calling It That?
  • We Call Them Sorcerers
  • Reinventing NSControl
  • I Wouldn’t Call It a Monstrosity
  • “Can I Call It a Monstrosity?” “Sure!”
  • I Had Not Been Finished Expressing the Horror
  • This Is High-Quality Stuff
  • I’m Not a Lawyer, but That’s My Understanding
  • Oh, You’re Doomed, All Right
  • The Equivalent of Flash Cookies in Your PDF
  • It’s Not That Bad
  • The Quote-Unquote Simple Thing That I Really Wanted to Do
  • Andy’s Being a Great Guy
  • Your First Diabolical Idea?
  • Ohhh, I Know Where This Is Going…Oh God…
  • It’s Kind of Like Journaling
  • Did You Open It in Acrobat?
  • Or God Help You, Your Bots
  • Already Used to a Certain Amount of Pain
  • It’s Kinda Sketch
  • Including Yourself, but Now You’re Invisible
  • You Sound Pretty Self-Satisfied About That
  • You, Apparently, Want to Mess with It
  • Probably Not Very High Quality…At Least It’s Free
  • Did You Use “Wolf Dingbats”?
  • You Should Ignore All of This
  • Like a Big Stupid Head
  • Everyone Already Has Comic Sans
  • iOS Also Has a Studly PDF Rendering
  • I Have Too Much to Live For
  • Thanks for Showing Us Your Yaks, Wolf
80
15 Feb 2014

Xcode Templates

play (41 minutes 20 MB)

Andrew Pontious, with guest cohost Josh Johnson, talks about Xcode project and file templates.

Links:

Rejected Episode Titles:

  • Pulling a Siracusa
  • A Topic List a Mile Long
  • I Hid Our Cats Before I Started
  • I Guess It’s Not a Fair Question
  • A Whole Bunch of Other Crap in There
  • Only Localized in Japanese
  • A Regular Old Plist
  • Hey Everybody, Gather Round
  • An Odd Little Duckling
  • ‘Trunder’ or Possibly ‘Thunder’
  • Unlike Objective-C Itself
  • I Bet They Got Mocked Quite a Bit for That
  • So You No Longer Have That Stupid Organization Name
  • It Makes It Less Flexible
  • The Great Disaster That Was the Switch Between Xcode 3 and Xcode 4
  • I’m Glad That This Is the Topic
79
08 Feb 2014

ClickToFlash: Behind the Music

play (38 minutes 18 MB)

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about how he unexpectedly came to lead the popular and award-winning Safari plugin ClickToFlash, and how, after a wild ride, the project both ended and continued on.

Links:

Rejected Episode Titles:

  • Cofounder of Panic, Which Everyone Loves
  • When the URLs Burned up Your One-Forty
  • Flash Cookies Turn out to Be Really Strong Sauce
  • An Infinite Cookie
  • “You Really Love YouTube.” “I Wouldn’t Have Phrased It That Way…”
  • Gathering up Their Patches
  • GitHub Is Where Pull Requests Happen
  • “Are You Sure It Wasn’t You?” “I Am Batman!”
  • A Shadow Vigilante
  • One Point Oh Plus Rentzsch
  • At This Point You Should Cue the Foreboding Music
  • Our Lifelong Hate of Installer Technology
  • A Downward Spiral of Drugs and Alcohol
  • Unfortunately I Wasn’t That Evil Back Then
  • Just to Alleviate My Guilt
  • Settings, Advanced Settings, Privacy, Content Settings, Click to Play
  • I Basically Choked on This Pull Request
  • He Was Already off to the Races
  • Branded as a Flash Hater
  • I Had a Ton of Fun Doing It, and I’m Glad It’s Over
  • You Don’t Like Flash, Do You Like Green Lantern?
78
02 Feb 2014

Indexing with Clang

play (48 minutes 23 MB)

Andrew Pontious describes to Wolf Rentzsch his efforts to use libclang to index his Xcode projects, using his new (and barely functional) Chime framework.

Links:

Rejected Episode Titles:

  • I Had Not Broken Free of the Chain
  • Clang’s a Big Topic
  • You Could Route Around Apple
  • “Provides a Public Inferface”
  • CFRelease All Over Again
  • In Edge Cases and Perhaps Wolf Fashion
  • It Appears to Do Nothing
  • Objective-C: It’s Not Magical
  • Slow Enumeration
  • Enumerate, Blobbity Blobbity Blah
  • Kinda Streamy
  • There’s a Whole Bunch of Different Buckets
  • I Have Nothing Concrete to Tell You
  • It Can’t Be All That Fuzzy
  • Xcode Doesn’t Just Fall Over
  • It’s an Extremely Difficult Problem
  • Science Also Has This Issue
  • You Really Like Hearing from Losers
  • A Horrible Engineering Challenge
  • Very Excited About Your Little Chime Project
77
25 Jan 2014

Prototype-Based Programming

play (44 minutes 21 MB)

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about his other favorite thing, prototype-based programming, and examples of it such as Self, NewtonScript, Io, and, yes, JavaScript. Plus: the dunder is back!

Links:

Rejected Episode Titles:

  • The Other Favorite Thing
  • You Always Have a Screenful of Notes
  • I’m in a Bad Situation
  • I Got Hopelessly Excited
  • I Would Like an Instance of You
  • “Don’t Let Me Derail You.” “Too Late.”
  • Maybe That’s All the More Reason to Do That
  • What Is an Instance of a Class?
  • You Need This Thing That’s Above Classes
  • It Is Not Turtles All the Way Down
  • Draw the Line at That Frivolity Right There
  • Much More Sensible in C Land
  • Have You Done This? Of Course You Have!
  • That Solves the Philosophical Problem
  • Better in Every Conceivable Way
  • Emphasize the ‘Class’ in ‘Classical’
  • Objects As Glorified Dictionaries
  • Walk Up to the NSWindow Instance
  • I Don’t Think There’s Any Need for Classes
  • A Slave to the Process Model
  • There’s No Life After Death
  • It’s That Xcode Blueprint Thing Again
  • When You Reboot the Universe Every Time
  • Assembling a Bicycle Instead of Writing the Assembly Manual for a Bicycle
  • Classes Have a Very High Cognitive Load
  • Where View Controllers Kind of Rule the Day
  • God, You Don’t Want to Have to Write Another Class!
  • If You Color Within the Lines
  • This Intellectual Sludge
  • The Great JavaScript Engine Wars
  • Self Didn’t Catch the World on Fire
  • More Pythonic Type of Stuff
  • That Seed of Discontent
76
18 Jan 2014

Let's Try iCloud Syncing

play (43 minutes 21 MB)

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the cool aspects and the frustrating aspects of Apple’s iCloud document syncing. Plus: Wolf disses HyperCard!

Links:

Rejected Episode Titles:

  • He Went On and On About Interface Builder
  • I Think I Was Actually Wrong
  • I Coulda Told ’Em
  • It Sounds Like Wolf Catnip…Wolfnip?
  • Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom
  • You Gotta Pay for Both, Boo Hoo
  • It Could Actually Be Foogleblarghyblargh
  • Xcode Does That for You, Which Is a Little Scary
  • The End of the Cool Stuff
  • Exercise for the Reader
  • I Love Using the Word Edge Cases
  • “My God, Apple, Stop Letting Us Do Our Own Thing!”
  • Closer to the Truth Than I’d Like to Admit
  • Unicode is Impossible, This Crazy Beast
  • Always Going to Be a Race Condition
  • We’ll Let It Be Impossible
  • Can Wrappers Be Called Leaky?
  • A Lot of Stuff Can Happen in a Second
  • You Can’t Leave Files Behind
  • A Total Hot Mess
  • Computer Science–Hard Stuff to Do
  • Ending on a Stupid Joke, We Can Do That
75
11 Jan 2014

A Few of My Favorite Things

play (46 minutes 22 MB)

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about two of his favorite things, live development objects and Code Bubbles. Plus: revisiting Microsoft’s Singularity.

Links:

Rejected Episode Titles:

  • The Magic’s Gone
  • Maybe I’m Just a Big Blabbermouth
  • Siracusa Being the Madman That He Is
  • Keep in Mind This Is Not THE Singularity
  • A Gemini Thing Going On
  • Freeze-Dried Objects
  • These Troublesome Laws of Physics
  • For a Certain Value of “We”
  • Feels More Like Clay
  • Code Being Flung over the Wire
  • The Pony Episode
  • A Truly Dynamic Language Yearning to Breathe Free
  • Every Other Minute Blows Your Mind
  • The Seed of Discontent
  • A Guy Who Loves Lots of Windows on His Screen
  • What Was That About Being Positive?
  • Writing Code, Writing Code, Writing Code CHUNK Time to Move Over to Debug!
  • The Best Reason to Install Java on Your Mac
  • Try a Little Slice of the Future Here
74
28 Dec 2013

Accessibility

play (46 minutes 22 MB)

Andrew Pontious along with Wolf Rentzsch delves into Apple’s accessibility APIs for iOS.

Links:

Rejected Episode Titles:

  • “I Like the Way You Think.” “Really? Nobody Else Seems To.”
  • Don’t Be Stupid!
  • What the Darn Thing’s Gonna Do
  • Don’t Smush Together Things
  • Instances of Deep Polish
  • A Maintenance Smell
  • I Rarely Prove Myself Too Much of a Pessimist
  • Which Was Not Very Well-Spent Time
  • You Are the Walter White of Cocoa
  • Still Geometry-Based
  • A Muscle-Memory Thing
  • It’s Not Like There’s a Carbon
  • On the Mac, It’s So Much Worse
  • Sort of Complaint-Minded
73
22 Dec 2013

Sequential Consistency

play (48 minutes 23 MB)

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about sequential consistency and memory models by dressing up Andrew as a Processor and himself as Main Memory. Special involuntary cameo by Daniel Jalkut the Cache (not really).

Links:

Rejected Episode Titles:

  • A Custom Mispronunciation of Your Name
  • Right There, You Already Have Your First Problem
  • We’re Going to Do a Little Role Playing
  • As Close to Shakespeare as We Get Here at Edge Cases
  • Andrew, You’re Really Fast, Everyone Says That
  • La-Di-La, Check Your Watch, Check Twitter
  • To Continue the Inappropriate Anthromorphization
  • Jalkut the Cache
  • Actually One of the Worst Things You Can Do
  • This Only Buys You So Much
  • Like a Tree Falling in the Forest
  • You Should Take All This with a Grain of Salt
  • You’re a Fool to Listen to Us
  • Storing Is Communication
  • We Want to Throw Some Money at the Problem
  • I’m Already Cheap
  • Have You Ever Had the Pleasure of Debugging Optimized Code?
  • Where All the Jalkuts Get to Talk to Each Other
  • We Don’t Want to Cut Java Any Slack
  • Go into Lawyer Mode
  • You’re in Undefined Land, No One Can Help You Anyway
  • Surprisingly Strongly Consistent
  • That’s When the Bit Gets Set
  • That’s How Awesome We Are
72
13 Dec 2013

It's Not Just Code, It's Unicode

play (48 minutes 23 MB)

Andrew Pontious talks hexy to Wolf Rentzsch by going on at length about Unicode: its design, its planes (astral and otherwise), and its UTF-16 and UTF-8 encodings. Plus: backup followup.

Links:

Rejected Episode Titles:

  • I Have My Own Misgivings About This Topic
  • Not Only Because It Destroyed Your System
  • I Could Never Find the Emotional Strength
  • We Warned You About This, Nicholas
  • Don’t Quote Me on That
  • Backup Itself Is Such a Terrible Topic
  • In the Corner There, Sulking
  • He’s Taken the Arrows in the Back for Us
  • Or Umlaut, If You’re German
  • Automate Ourselves Away
  • A Bit of a Scope Increase
  • Talk Hexy to Me
  • I Don’t Even Know What’s in There
  • How Wikipedia Thinks That Works
  • It Cracks Me Up When You Read Binary
  • It’s a Magic Cookie
  • Two Thingies to Represent One Character
  • If You Want to Wake the Beast
  • Given Unicode, That Way Lies Madness
  • Dammit, Stop This Idiocy
71
08 Dec 2013

Libraries vs Collaborating Objects

play (56 minutes 27 MB)

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about software interface design, using jQuery’s Ajax functionality as an example of a “library” API style and NSURLConnection as an example of a “collaborating objects” API style. Plus: AFNetworking, and NSURLSession.

Links:

Rejected Episode Titles:

  • This Is the NURLConnection One
  • Involuntary Followup
  • Everybody Should Use Time Machine
  • Pluck the Remaining Files
  • Shows How Much I Know About the Medical Profession
  • The Elevator Pitch for JQuery
  • Suspend Your Disgust
  • A Bit of Knowledge Wikipedia Doesn’t Know
  • That’s a Little JQuery Joke for You Two People in the Audience
  • The Worse Case Scenario
  • “Let Us Now Talk About NSURLConnection” “…Must We?”
  • The Detritus Left on Shore After That Storm
  • Designed Literally a Decade Ago
  • A C Function Pointer, Which Nobody Likes
  • Every Single Method Is Optional
  • Not That I Recommend Diving In
  • Google+ Is Still a Present Danger
  • Talking Trash About AFNetworking
  • A Big Ball of MUD
  • I Will Take a String, Because F U NSURL
  • What Really Helps Is Diagramming
  • Don’t Use UML
  • My Good Friend NSCalendarDate
  • It’s Like You Don’t Know Me at All
70
23 Nov 2013

Android Is Like Moving to France

play (46 minutes 22 MB)

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about taking the very first steps to try to develop for Android, including why he’s thinking about it, why companies like Eclipse even if he doesn’t, and why he had to turn to Stack Overflow almost immediately.

Links:

Rejected Episode Titles:

  • Back to the Mac, and Not in a Good Way
  • Apple Will Keep Slipping Further and Further Behind
  • Apple’s Kind of Letting Us Down
  • Less Reason for Us to Stay…Monogamous?
  • Unsettling Connections
  • I’m Not Going to Make That Promise
  • Eclipse Makes Me Shudder
  • You Actually Took One for the Team
  • Something to Get Me Over That Hump
  • I Can’t Get a Damn Thing to Work
  • That Really Stumps a Lot of People
  • It’s Still Intensely Stupid, but At Least That Helps
  • Maybe for My Third or Fourth Episode about Learning Android
  • A Software Tooling Issue
  • Speaking As Mr. Mogenerator
  • It’s a Little Weird
  • At Least Three Problems That Stopped Me Dead
  • Wait a Minute, I Need That
  • I’d Better Go Off to the Internet
  • Right Now I’m Just Going to Role With It
  • Which Is Also a Fairly Horrible Name for Something
  • Very Non-Apple-y Way to Do Things
  • Giving Up on the Mac Look and Feel…Forever
  • I’ll Let You Talk in a Minute
  • WebOS Will Spoil You
  • All My Normal Friends Seem to Now Have Androids
69
16 Nov 2013

The Time Machine Worst-Case Scenario

play (54 minutes 26 MB)

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about backup. Topics include Time Machine, the sadness of Time Capsule, SuperDuper, clonedrive (Wolf’s own software), CrashPlan, Backblaze, and Arq.

Links:

Rejected Episode Titles:

  • You Have Secret Followup?
  • Hungry for a Big, Empty Hard Drive
  • It Was Lying to Me
  • Time Capsule Is Such a Sad Story
  • It Could Be Pure Apple
  • Everyone Needs a Wifi Router
  • If They’re Normals, What Are We?
  • Eventually, Something Goes Wrong, All the Time
  • Don’t Feel Like You Actually Have to Read It
  • Whatever Cat That Was
  • Stop the World for Me
  • It Has the Magic Pocket Watch
  • Enough Quirks and Failure Scenarios
  • Don’t Put Your Eggs in the Time Capsule Basket
  • RAID Is Not a Backup
  • Past Me Had a Stroke or Something
  • The Least Reliable Part of Your System
  • Cocoa Copy Cloner
  • I’m Amazed It Works
  • All Backup Machismo
  • Randomly Eating Its Backups
  • It Wouldn’t Be an Edge Cases Episode If I Didn’t Write Some Code
  • It Looks Like a Toaster
  • Not What Dropbox Is For
  • I Feel Kind of Bad for Normals
  • They’re Not Doing It, and They’re Not Going to Do It
  • If We Mention His Name Three Times, Will He Appear?